{"id":130,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:05","latitude":45.18828400000000300451574730686843395233154296875,"longitude":-109.24731600000001208172761835157871246337890625,"title":"Hawkes &amp; Son Photography Studio","subtitle":"Red Lodge Commercial Historic District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/e33f627de1738ae7c38879043280014f.jpg","address":"113 Broadway Avenue North, Red Lodge, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":7,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"Photographer Mark E. Hawkes and his son Charley built a photography studio at this location where much of Red Lodge’s history was documented in pictures. Charley later struck out for Great Falls, and son Harry joined Mark. Hawkes &amp; Son sold the business in 1919 to William Lewis. The son of a Welsh coal miner, Lewis ran the studio and continued to document the town’s history. In 1926, a depressed economy threatened the business, forcing Lewis to relocate to Seattle. Katie Psenda Egenes, who apprenticed with Lewis, eventually came to own Flash’s Studio, where the valuable Red Lodge collections of Hawkes and Lewis came to reside. Jewelers Berne Rydberg and later Peter Micheletto occupied the north half of the building from 1914 through the 1960s. The one-story brick block features the unusual preservation of the original storefront with recessed double entry and large display windows framed in wood. A large north-facing window at the rear allowing maximum use of natural light is a unique reminder of the original owner’s profession.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/f8b08e86-d03b-4868-9cc0-def05e2655c1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about the Red Lodge Commercial Historic District</a>","<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/839e62c4-1039-4929-a4ca-251b9845a691/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See photos of the Red Lodge Commercial Historic District</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/e33f627de1738ae7c38879043280014f.jpg":{"id":5459,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Hawkes and Sons","description":"Facade | Montana Historical Society | July 24, 2022 | Bryan Baldwin","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/e33f627de1738ae7c38879043280014f.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/c1d6e4f23f1c74a3298255f6e42fe397.jpg":{"id":609,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Hawkes &amp; Son Photography Studio","description":"Still image capture of the Hawkes &amp; Son Photography Studio, Red Lodge, Montana. Image information drawn from related images in the Red Lodge Commercial Historic District files at the State Historic Preservation Office. Information is not recorded on verso. b&amp;w print. | Official records of the Montana State Historic Preservation Office, Helena, Montana | 1980 | Unidentified photographer","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/c1d6e4f23f1c74a3298255f6e42fe397.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/984eab2fcd6e191428df62a98f9e780c.jpg":{"id":608,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Hawkes &amp; Son Photography Studio","description":"Still image capture of the Hawkes &amp; Son Photography Studio, Red Lodge, Montana. Image information drawn from related images in the Red Lodge Commercial Historic District folder at the State Historic Preservation Office. Information is not recorded on verso. b&amp;w print. | Official records of the Montana State Historic Preservation Office, Helena, Montana | 1985 | Unidentified photographer","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/984eab2fcd6e191428df62a98f9e780c.jpg"}}}